Business & Finance: Young Executive

To Roger Steffan, onetime Ohio grocery boy, came last week a vice presidency in National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces...

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